Setting up an email while hosting on Netlify

Question

Wondering if anyone has experience setting an email while hosting a site with Netfliy? I registered a domain name using google domains and pointed the name servers to Netlify that is hosting a Gatsby static site. I would like to set up an email on a shared hosting account (I’m using hostpapa).

The Netlify DNS is set up and the site is live. I have tried adding setting the A records to the hosting IP, and MX records to mail.domain… to Netlify DNS and Google Domain records... I guess the questions might be where should the name servers point first... In both cases, the nameservers are still pointed to Netlify where the site is hosted and I get the following error:

Please transfer the domain to this servers nameservers or have your administrator add one of its nameservers to /etc/ips.remotedns and make the proper A entries on that remote nameserver.

Solution 1

For setting up an email when using Netlify nameservers (DNS zone), you have to follow the instructions provided by your email provider.

This typically requires you to enter MX records into the DNS zone on Netlify. If you're using GSuite, go to "Synthetic Domains" on the google domains site and copy everything in there to the DNS zone of Netlify. You can ignore the warnings saying that you have to use google's names servers. As an example, this is my setup for email provided by GSuite:

Solution 2

I use Yandex.connect and Netlify make my personal mail service.

You can check the official doc. https://yandex.ru/support/connect/dns/mx.html?lang=en

Or see my steps:

1. register a Yandex.connect account

https://connect.yandex.com

2. set Domains on Yandex

3. set DNS on Netlify

Comments

[fstep]

Thanks! This might be the option I go with. I was hoping to use my shared hosting provider but could not find the MX records to use. Turns out they are only available if you set up an advanced/business email. Since that is an additional paid option and I was going to eventually connect it to my gmail anyway I might as well use GSuit.

[Wang]

Could you provide an example regarding how to fill the MX record table? I don't know what is mail server's host name.